Beyond the Stacks: Innovative Careers in Library & Information Science

Beyond the Stacks: Innovative Careers in Library & Information Science


Latest Episodes

Episode 14: Titus Moolathara, Advocacy Librarian
March 01, 2017

March 2017 is an exciting month for Beyond the Stacks! We will be releasing two episodes this month and these episodes highlight three librarians from the Free Library of Philadelphia working on innovative community-building projects. We talked to Titus

Episode 13: Jenny Benevento, Etsy.com Taxonomist
February 01, 2017

Welcome to Season 4 of Beyond the Stacks! On this month’s episode, we hear from Jenny Benevento. Jenny has created taxonomies for the Associated Press, Sears and Kmart, Etsy and other smaller businesses and organizations. Join us as we talk about t

Episode 12: Tom Blake of the Boston Public Library
December 01, 2016

On this month’s episode, we hear from Tom Blake, the Content Discovery Manager at the Boston Public Library. This episode concludes season 3 and marks Elizabeth’s first time as host! Tom came to the BPL from the Massachusetts Historical Socie

Episode 11: Jennie Rose Halperin of Creative Commons
November 01, 2016

On this month’s episode, we hear from Jennie Rose Halperin, the Communications Manager at Creative Commons. It is also Derek’s last episode before he graduates at the end of this semester! Before working at Creative Commons, Jennie worked at

Episode 10: Amanda Brennan on Internet Librarianship
October 01, 2016

On this month’s episode, we hear from Amanda Brennan, the Internet Librarian! Amanda is currently a Community and Content Associate at Tumblr. Amanda Brennan specializes in researching the history of memes and other viral content throughout the web

Episode 9: Caryn Baird on News Librarianship
September 01, 2016

Welcome to Season 3 of Beyond the Stacks! We’re now back to our regular schedule, with a new episode on the first day of each month. On this month’s episode, we hear from Caryn Baird, Senior News Researcher at the Tampa Bay Times. She has research

Episode 8: Jason Griffey on Inventing Open Hardware
May 01, 2016

This month, we hear from Jason Griffey, creator and director of the LibraryBox project and founder and team leader of the Measure the Future project. Griffey is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He has writt

Episode 7: Eben English on Developing Digital Repositories
April 01, 2016

On this month’s episode, we hear from Eben English, librarian and web developer at the Boston Public Library, where he focuses on front-end development for Digital Commonwealth, a digital library featuring collections from libraries, museums, archi

Episode 6: Henry Lowood on Software History & Preservation
March 01, 2016

On this month’s episode, we hear from Henry Lowood, curator for history of science & technology collections and for film & media collections at Stanford University and lecturer at Stanford University, San Jose State University, and UC Santa

Episode 5: Alex Wade on Tech Sector Librarians
February 01, 2016

Welcome to Season 2 of Beyond the Stacks! We’re now back to our regular schedule, with a new episode on the first day of each month. On this month’s episode, we hear from Alex Wade, the director of Scholarly Communications at Microsoft Resear